Date: Wednesday 30 October 2024
Time: 6:30 – 8:30pm
Location: Goodwood House, Chichester, West Sussex
Goodwood, West Sussex – Goodwood House is delighted to welcome internationally bestselling author Kate Mosse CBE for an exclusive evening event on Wednesday 30 October, at 6:30pm. Guests will have the rare opportunity to hear Kate discuss her latest historical adventure novel, The Map of Bones, while enjoying a welcome drink in the magnificent surroundings of the State Apartments at Goodwood House.
Mosse’s latest book, The Map of Bones is an epic tale of love, adventure, and adversity. The novel is the highly anticipated sequel to the No. 1 bestseller The Ghost Ship and the final instalment in The Joubert Family Chronicles. Set against the backdrop of 17th and 19th-century southern Africa, The Map of Bones masterfully weaves together stories of injustice, hardship, and triumph.
Guests will have the chance to meet one of the most celebrated voices in historical fiction with a live talk by Kate Mosse, where she will delve into the making of The Map of Bones and the rich history behind The Joubert Family Chronicles.
Clementine de la Poer Beresford, Curator of the Goodwood Collection, says, “We are delighted to welcome Kate to Goodwood for what promises to be a fascinating evening full of thrilling historical adventure!”
Tickets for the evening are £15 per person, which includes a welcome drink. There will be an opportunity to purchase books on the evening and have them signed by Kate.
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Miranda Witchell, Head of E&H Marketing & PR
Miranda.witchell@goodwood.com
About Goodwood
Goodwood Estate is England’s greatest sporting estate set in 11,000 acres of beautiful West Sussex countryside. Seat of the Dukes of Richmond since 1697, it is renowned for creating exceptional experiences and world-class sporting events, hosting four of the largest and most anticipated occasions in the British social calendar: Festival of Speed, Qatar Goodwood Festival, Goodwood Revival and Goodwoof.
Alongside Goodwood’s rich history sits an estate-wide culture of protecting and promoting sustainability, creativity, and the environment. The diverse portfolio of businesses includes one of the largest lowland organic farms in Europe; a famous Battle of Britain airfield and aerodrome; a racecourse; a historic motor circuit; two golf courses and a short game area and short course; one of the oldest cricket grounds in the country; The Kennels members’ clubhouse; ten-bedroom luxury retreat, Hound Lodge; self-catering holiday cottages, The Pheasantry, Peach Tree & Crab Apple and Windmill Cottages; The Goodwood Hotel and Goodwood Health & Wellbeing, which includes the Health Club and Gut Health Programmes; the Goodwood Education Centre; the award-winning sustainable restaurant Farmer, Butcher, Chef and, of course, Goodwood House.
About Kate Mosse CBE:
Kate Mosse CBE FRSL is an award-winning novelist, playwright, performer, interviewer and writer of history and memoir. The author of eleven novels and short-story collections, her books have been translated into thirty-eight languages and published in more than forty countries. Fiction includes the multimillion-selling Languedoc Trilogy (Labyrinth, Sepulchre, Citadel), The Joubert Family Chronicles (The Burning Chambers, The City of Tears, The Ghost Ship, The Map of Bones) and No 1 bestselling Gothic fiction The Taxidermist’s Daughter and The Winter Ghosts. Her highly-acclaimed non-fiction includes An Extra Pair of Hands: A Story of Caring & Everyday Acts of Love and Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries: How Women(Also)Built the World, which inspired her one-woman theatre show.
A regular guest on radio and television for literature, Kate hosts the pre-show interview series at Chichester Festival Theatre and is a regular interviewer for literary and arts festivals including Letters Live, the Hay Festival, the Edinburgh International Book Festival, the British Library and the Royal National Theatre.
The Founder Director of the Women’s Prize for Fiction and the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction–the world’s largest annual literary awards celebrating writing by woman-she is also the founder of the global #WomanInHistory campaign. A trustee of the British Library, Kate is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, an Honorary Fellow of the Society of Authors, a Visiting Professor of Contemporary Fiction and Creative Writing at the University of Chichester and President of the Festival of Chichester. She was awarded a CBE in the King’s New Year’s Honours list 2024.
